Tchaikovsky wrote his Festival Overture on the Danish National Anthem (Торжественная увертюра на Датский гимн) in D major, Op. 15 (TH 40 ; ČW 37) between September and November 1866 in Moscow. It was commissioned from Tchaikovsky by Nikolay Rubinstein for the forthcoming celebrations of the marriage of the heir to the Imperial Throne, Grand Duke Aleksandr Aleksandrovich, and the Danish Princess Dagmar (later Tsar Alexander III and Empress Mariya Fyodorovna).
🇷🇺 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Festival Overture on the Danish National Anthem in D major, Op. 15 (1866)
There is one movement: Andante non troppo-Allegro vivo (D major, 624 bars), lasting around 12 to 15 minutes in performance.
It is not possible to establish when composition of the Overture was begun, or when Tchaikovsky received the commission, but it would have been no earlier than September 1866. On 8/20 November that year, the composer informed his brother Anatoly: The overture for Dagmara is completely finished, but it seems that her visit to Moscow has been postponed until April, and therefore I didn't need to rush". At the end of the manuscript score is the date "12 November 1866. Moscow".
Tchaikovsky revised the Overture in April and May 1892, when the full score was due to be published.
Performers:
USSR State Symphony Orchestra conducted by Evgeny Svetlanov
14 дек 2023
